SPIEGEL: Mr. Prime Minister, you are a Christian Democrat and a Catholic, which is why we want to talk to you about the Ten Commandments.
Juncker: I already have an idea of what you are getting at.
SPIEGEL: Are you familiar with the Eighth Commandment?
Juncker: Of course. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
SPIEGEL: Apparently you don’t take it very seriously. More than two weeks ago, you denied a report by SPIEGEL ONLINE about a secret meeting of several European Union finance ministers to discuss the situation in Greece, even though the official limousines were already pulling up in Luxembourg.
Juncker: The most important commandment is not to inflict harm on others. Although it isn’t stated quite that way in the Ten Commandments, it follows from them. The finance ministers of several Euro Group nations had agreed to meet on Friday with the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Jean-Claude Trichet. Because the financial markets in Europe were still open and trading was still underway on Wall Street, we had to deny the existence of the meeting. Otherwise the course of the euro against the dollar, which had already fallen as a result of your report, would have plunged disastrously.
SPIEGEL: With this false denial, you not only harmed your own credibility, but that of European financial policy as well.
Juncker: And it didn’t exactly enhance the credibility of SPIEGEL ONLINE to disseminate the false report that we were meeting in Luxembourg to discuss Greece’s withdrawal from the monetary union.
>use 'mofo' instead. i dont want it fully spelled out
I do not have any problems with full version or any other "dirty" words. If you do not want to see them you can always install some FireFox plugin that will filter them out.
Nah... me too lazy. mofo isn't any less dirty than motherfucker. But it sounds more witty. e.g. sh!t, fuk, biach
It's prolly... because I work w/ many who say the dirty words everyday. One guy's mouth is shaped 'O' to say the words efficiently... everyday he curses. We call him Mr.'O'. When I see Mr.O with his mouth open wide and O shaped... I can hear him saying it from tens of feet away.... "mOOOOOther...fOOOOOOOccckkker!!!..." Ah... what a mofo.
:-). I was born in socialist country.Our leaders said they will soon be better to just have to tighten our belts ;).There is no socialist country here :-).Why ? Because they lied.I'm resistant to lie of politics. I'm thinking that word "politic" is synonym to word "lie".Example: "Iraq has nuclear bomb", " USA is a friend of every free country"," In the next cartoon coyote win the Road Runner ".Last one is not lie but terrible prophecy: "On the points of bayonets, we brought to the happiness and peace of humanity working! ".
>I was born in socialist country.Our leaders said they will soon be better to just have to tighten our belts
I believe that your current leaders is telling you the reverse thing now, aren't they? No? Strange...
>I'm thinking that word "politic" is synonym to word "lie"
Politics are not synonimous to lie. Just many bad bastards want you to thinks so. Political talks or any information are used like a tool. So, if you see anyone to use hammer to slam their fingers it do not mean that hammer is to blame.
"I believe that your current leaders is telling you the reverse thing now, aren't they? No? Strange..." Yes of course Vitaliy :-). It is not strange, it is politic.They are telling the same thing before elections and after elections they are telling the reverse :-). You know, I know that anything is black or white but most people don't want to hear this. They want black and white because its easier .Its like heaven and hell for them but we live between, on earth . P.S.Don't You think that in slavic languages, we have better- sounding "bad words " ? ;-)